My Sparkling Chardonnay, while alcohol free, can still be matched to food in the same way that wine can, because we use traditional winemaking techniques to produce it. It is simply wine with the alcohol left aside. I always tend to match wine to my cooking because it is so seasonally influenced, but my Sparkling Chardonnay is so perfectly food-friendly, I feel like I can drink it with anything -MB. Read the rest...
With David Blackmore who won this year's Maggie Beer Award for Outstanding Contribution to the food industry at last night's delicious. Produce Awards. David's combined understanding of raising animals as a fifth-generation farmer and his study of Japanese genetics and methodology of farming wagyu sets the absolute benchmark to all others. Read the rest...
If you don’t have access to a good range of homegrown potatoes, and would like to, simply search out the variety you want to grow, let them go to seed, then plant them. I arrange them in neat rows because it is only when the plant dies back that the potatoes are ready to dig up, and I need good markers so I don’t rip up my whole garden in the frenzy to find the buried treasure! - MB. Read the rest...
Congratulations to all the finalists and winners at last night's delicious. Produce Awards - it was an exciting night celebrating producers who are doing amazing things all over Australia. It’s the 11th year of the awards and every year there is always something that absolutely astounds us. Joel Bickford, the chef at Pier One Sydney did an amazing job taking the produce of the finalists and putting it together as canapes for everyone to taste - it was a truly great night! -MB Read the rest...
Spring is all about new life. And Springtime in the garden is the most exciting time of all. The first signal that Spring is coming to the farm is the almond tree slowly blossoming, while it is still cold. Read the rest...
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